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conjunto de quatro calhas e portiers

English translation: set of four rails and door curtains

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Portuguese term or phrase:conjunto de quatro calhas e portiers
English translation:set of four rails and door curtains
Entered by: Valter Miranda

18:49 Nov 16, 2022
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances
Portuguese term or phrase: conjunto de quatro calhas e portiers
Estou completamente perdido mas esta questão, se não estou em erro, tem a ver com cortinas.
Valter Miranda
Local time: 04:57
set of four rails and door curtains
Explanation:
I assume "portiers" is the French "portières", which means door curtains.

http://www.techdico.com/translation/portuguese-english/calha...
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/portière
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philgoddard
United States
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Obrigado a todos por mais uma prestimosa ajuda!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4set of four rails and door curtains
philgoddard
4set of four rails and portieres
Oliver Simões


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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
set of four rails and door curtains


Explanation:
I assume "portiers" is the French "portières", which means door curtains.

http://www.techdico.com/translation/portuguese-english/calha...
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/portière


philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Obrigado a todos por mais uma prestimosa ajuda!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrew Bramhall
31 mins
  -> Thanks, Andrew.
agree  Mario Freitas:
3 hrs
agree  Oliver Simões: I agree. I left "portiere" as another option.
21 hrs
agree  Andre Lange
1 day 44 mins
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
set of four rails and portieres


Explanation:
Acredito que há um erro gráfico: "portiers" em lugar de "portieres".

portiere: a curtain hanging across a doorway
Merriam-Webster

Example Sentence

Throughout, Bilhuber plays with the transformative properties of surfaces: Screens become walls become doors become portieres.
-- Celia Barbour, ELLE Decor, 17 June 2015
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portiere


Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 20:57
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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